Bombay High Court

BILAL SHAFI SENDULE AND ANRversusSTATE OF MAHARASHTRA

Decided: 8 September 2026
Disposal: Disposed off as Withdrawn

Holding

The anticipatory bail application was disposed of as infructuous because the FIR on which it was based had been quashed.

Summary

The applicants, Bilal Shafi Sendule and another, filed an anticipatory bail application before the Bombay High Court. They relied on the fact that FIR No. 236 of 2025, registered at Bhayander Police Station, had been quashed by the same court on 28 August 2026 in Criminal Application No. 1385 of 2026. Their counsel submitted that, in view of the quashing of the FIR, the anticipatory bail application had become moot. The Court examined this submission and found no need to entertain a bail application where the underlying criminal proceeding no longer existed. Consequently, the Court disposed of the anticipatory bail application as infructuous.

Issues considered

What is the effect of the quashing of an FIR on a pending anticipatory bail application?

Subjects

anticipatory bail
FIR quash
infructuous application
criminal procedure

Judgment

                                                   28-ABA-2665-2025.odt

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         IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

     ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO. 2665 OF 2025

Bilal Shafi Sendule And Anr.                                ...Applicants

            V/S.

The State Of Maharashtra And Anr.                           ...Respondents

_____________________________________________________________

Adv. Nilesh Navale, for the Applicant.
Adv. Megha S. Bajoria, APP for the Respondent – State.
________________________________________________________
                 CORAM : PRAFULLA S. KHUBALKAR, J.
                 DATE : 08TH SEPTEMBER, 2026.
P.C. :-

1.          Learned counsel for the applicants states that the FIR in

question, i.e. FIR No. 236 of 2025 registered with Bhayander Police Station

has been quashed by this Court by the order dated 28 th August, 2026 in

Criminal Application No. 1385 of 2026. It is submitted that in view of this

order, the instant application has become infructuous.

2.          Accordingly, the application is disposed of as infructuous.


                                     (PRAFULLA S. KHUBALKAR, J.)



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